“Sooner or later” Georgia will celebrate de-occupation - Parliament official

Mikheil Sarjveladze, the Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Georgian Parliament, on Tuesday said “sooner or later” Georgia would celebrate the de-occupation of the country’s territories.

Sarjveladze stressed that “everything is being done” by Georgian authorities to ensure the de-occupation “without war”.

He called the European Court of Human Rights judgement of 2021 - in which the court confirmed that Russia had violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians - “the most important victory”.

The recent victories of Georgia over Russia in international courts “give us a reason to be hopeful that none of these barbaric facts will go unpunished”, Sarjveladze said while commenting on the killing of a Georgian citizen by Russian-backed occupation forces near a village adjacent to central Georgia’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on Monday.